Arden Thomas, Project Manager for Washington Water Trust will outline the history of water rights acquisition in the Teanaway, an overview of water rights in general, describe the process and timelines required, and information/updates on projects and funding.
Also, help us work through our... [ READ MORE... ]

By Kyle Smith
Since 1975, TU's Embrace-a-Stream program has awarded more than $4.5 million in competitive grants to chapters across the country. The local chapters and councils raise additional funds – leveraging donations to the Embrace-a-Stream grant program by as much as 20-to-1 – and have... [ READ MORE... ]

It’s May and the weather is unsettled across most of the country. That can only mean one thing – good fishing is just around the corner! Sure, we’re also busy planting willows on riverbanks. We’re teaching kids streamside about trout biology. We’re working with our neighbors to take out deadbeat... [ READ MORE... ]

Photo by Oliver Rogers
By Andrew Loffredo
When I graduated college in May 2015 and shared with my peers that I was going to be working for a non-profit conservation organization to work with college fly fishing clubs nationwide, I got a variety of responses ranging from, “Whoa, that's sick,” to... [ READ MORE... ]

by Chris Hunt
Everybody's favorite fly fishing guide Hank Patterson is offering anglers all over the world the chance to host a film screening in their living rooms this month (May 20 or May 21) for the simple price of a DVD or a digital download.
"Hank Patterson and the Mystery of the... [ READ MORE... ]

The Veterans Service Partnership (VSP) began in January of 2011 as an initiative of Trout Unlimited to serve our nation’s veterans and active military, able and disabled, their spouses, and their families and involve them with TU chapter activities with the ultimate goal of engaging them in... [ READ MORE... ]

***Location Change***
We've moved the meeting location for December's meeting to The Palace, in Ellensburg, WA. The meeting starts at 7 PM, with the Board meeting at 6 PM to discuss our Youth program, fundraising, and the 2016 Teanaway Plan. The general meeting will be a review of our 2015 projects... [ READ MORE... ]

A new Trout Unlimited Chapter was recently established in Oregon. The South Coast Cutthroat Chapter, with a small but active group of volunteers became an official TU Chapter at the end of September.
The Chapter is based in Coos Bay on the southern Oregon coast with members from Florence to the... [ READ MORE... ]

Join us for a day in the lower canyon of the Yakima River for a clean-up event hosted by the Yakima Chapter of Trout Unlimited. We will focus on removing garbage between Umtanum and Big Pines BLM areas, meeting at Big Pines at 5 PM for a BBQ. Map to Big Pines area (http://www.blm.gov/or/resources/... [ READ MORE... ]

Join us for our monthly meeting to learn more about the strategic goals for 2016, join/form a committee, and meet other members of the Chapter.
Here's our plan for 2016 - engage local youth and develop programs to inspire the next generation of conservation leaders, increase our knowledge of "... [ READ MORE... ]

Some suggestions for development based on working on a chapter and a council group...

1. For chapters, add an about button so that chapters can add permanent items like meeting times, places, officers, contacts, web links, etc...... Newbies would find this very helpful.

2. I've found a number of people are very, very confused by the idea of groups. The confusion, I think, stems from calling chapters and councils groups. People don't respond well to mixiing chapters and councils with affinity groups. For them, groups describe a collection of people with similar interests while a chapter (or council) is the TU organization to which one is attached. It would seem that renaming Councils and Chapters as such would help. No need to change funtionality, just terminology. So instead of searching for groups (councils, chapters) by region, they could click a Council button to find theirs or a Chaper button for their chapter.

3. When a member sets up their logon id and profile why can't they be automatically entered into their chapter and council... TU has this info and making the link would be easy.

I managed to get started on the Pemigwasset Chapter site. "About" and "Home" slide show are in OK state. I also put up one "Blog" entry and an Album in "Photos". I tried twice to put up an event on the "Calendar". Both times, it appeared that I was successful, but the event never shows up on the site.

So, for the questions and some comments:

Has anyone managed to create events? Edit: I just spotted the events. They were posted in the "Group" "Pemigewasset - 726", not under the "Calendar of Events". No idea how that came to be. I had not looked at the group before. end edit

In the Photos section, the individual photos can have a Titile and an "Alt Text", but I can't see those being used when viewing the album. How are these supposed to be used? I like that (when viewing a photo) you can magnify/zoom. It was a bit disconcerting the first time I tried that - it first zooms to 100% detail and then fits to the window. With a high-res image, that can be a surprise.

Under site settings, changes to local time zone don't seem to take. Plans to change that?

I found that placing photos in text content was tricky. The style settings are not very descriptive, so it's hard to tell what the photo will look like without some trial and error. Some of the styles crop photos is odd ways too.

Thanks Dave! The Pemigewasset Chapter Site is looking great. I went in and set the time zone info. For now, that will have to be changed internally by me. The events issues have been shared with the development team and I will share the news here when it is compleated.

The photos on your site are great. The alt text on photos is helpful for searching. We are woking on adding a photo portfolio that will help admins with photo storage as part of the next phases.

The good news is that TU has planned updates as we move forward. The more users we get added, the faster the updates will added. We appreciate all the hard work our volunteer leaders contribute to help make these chapter and council sites a strong conservation community building tool.

Our Hokendauqua Chapter site is up and running. For the most part it's as functional as our old website, which we will be losing shortly. I would like to see an area where non members could input questions or comments such as a Guest Book or question and comment form. On the old website we get quite a bit of input from non members with those tools. It is a good outreach tool. Site address: hokendauqua.tu.org. A link to old site on the new one Links page with the tools I mentioned.